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- Title
Widerstand und Verblendung? Helmut Thielickes Stellung zum Dritten Reich vor und nach 1945: Eine Neubewertung.
- Authors
Grassl, Fabian F.
- Abstract
Lutheran theologian and ethicist, Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986), has generally been regarded as an advocate of the»no-compromise«- policy towards Nazi Germany. This essay, however, draws attention to Thielicke's ambiguous stance on matters of the Third Reich. While the first part of this article presents Thielicke's personal account of his struggle for employment during Germany's darkest hour, the second part takes a closer look at his dealings with the Nazi authorities prior to 1945, in particular, his role in the resistance. The third section, in turn, reexamines his alleged lack of critical distance towards the regime after its downfall in 1945. This analysis is based on hitherto neglected and partly archived sources, and the focus in the third section focuses, above all, on. Thielicke's problematic line of argumentation in his thus far unnoticed Foreword to the Book of the Fallen of the Students' Fraternity Uttenruthia in Erlangen.
- Subjects
NAZI history; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945; THIELICKE, Helmut
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2019.32.1.116